Bugatti Galibier

Bugatti has been humming and hawing over whether to put its super sedan, the Galibier 16C, into production for years now. But it looks like, at long last, the VW-owned carmaker has given it the green light. They’ve even brought out some new images.

Bugatti boss Wolfgang Durheimer has said the new designs are “in its second half of the design phase” and are a big departure from the chrome concept we saw back in 2009.

The new design features a sleeker, more harmonious exterior that subtly hides the engine that most pundits believe will be capable of taking the saloon all the way up to 220 mph with ease. This may go some way to explain the eight exhausts located in banks of four either side of the rounded rear.

The interior, meanwhile, has been lavished with a copper-colored leather, which has been paired with what looks like a tinted walnut dash running through the central reservation and comes equipped with an LCD screen in the rear. As tantalizing as these pictures are, reports suggest we could be waiting till 2015 to see one of these on the road. Plus, with the Veyron being retired in favor of a newer, faster equivalent, we could be without something new from one of the finest carmakers of the 21st century for quite some time.